What Is Osteoporosis? What Causes Osteoporosis?

PTG Studios · #1 (**permalink**) 06-29-2009, 08:43 AM

The bones of people with osteoporosis become thin and weak. The word "osteo" comes from the Greek osteon meaning "bone", while "porosis" comes from the Greek poros meaning "hole, passage".

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Katex · #2 (**permalink**) 06-30-2009, 09:03 AM

Its well informative.. Anyway, Your bones are alive and constantly growing -- not static, like you see them drawn in books. Bones continually change throughout your life, with some bone cells dissolving and new bone cells growing back in a process called remodeling. With this lifelong turnover of bone cells, you replace most of your skeleton every 10 years.